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In this episode of the Hearing Horizons podcast, The Hearing Review’s Chief Editor Melanie Hamilton-Basich is joined by audiologist and author Duncan Floyd to talk about why the Optimized Method of masking can be so helpful in audiometry. They discuss what the method is, when to use it, and why he thinks more hearing care professionals should make use of it in their practice. 
 
Duncan Floyd, MSc AuD, Reg. Audiologist, has been an audiologist for almost 30 years and has practiced in Canada, China, and the USA. He has clinical experience with both pediatric and adult caseloads and has worked in an ENT environment for over 20 years. For over a decade, Duncan was the clinical coordinator for audiology and a lecturer at Dalhousie University’s School of Communication Sciences and Disorders in his home province of Nova Scotia, Canada. He currently works in Halifax, Nova Scotia in an ENT clinic, is an adjunct professor at Dalhousie teaching acoustic immittance measures, and is co-owner of Accessible Hearing Solutions. He is author of The Masking Handbook (for Audiometry). 

In this episode of the Hearing Horizons podcast, The Hearing Review Chief Editor Melanie Hamilton-Basich is joined by industry veteran Michael Andreozzi, BS, BC-HIS, of Beltone, to talk about his perspective on the hearing industry’s past, present, and future based on his involvement over the last four decades. They discuss his experience as an advocate for hearing healthcare and a mentor to hearing aid specialists as well as what he considers the biggest changes in hearing care. 

In the latest edition of the Hearing Horizon’s podcast, Andy Lundin, associate editor of The Hearing Review, interviews Marshall Chasin, AuD, director of auditory research at the Musicians’ Clinics of Canada, adjunct professor at the University of Toronto, and adjunct associate professor at Western University. They discussed the nuances of tinnitus for musicians in differing age demographics, including the differences in treatment, how stress impacts the condition, and solutions to relieve or prevent tinnitus symptoms.

In this podcast, I will be speaking with Ben Sun, CEO and founder of Orka. He was a former hardware engineer at Apple. He left life in the big tech to design and launch a hearing aid product called Orka One. Ben will be speaking with us about the role of a chip inside a hearing aid and how technology innovates the hearing aid performance and enhances the user experience.

The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)—the largest US advocacy group for people with hearing loss—has been busy working with the FDA, FTC, FCC, HHS, NIDCD, CTA, and the various professional and industry groups in hearing healthcare on virtually everything related to hearing and access issues. In this 26-minute podcast, HLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley talks with Hearing Review Editor Karl Strom about: •HLAA’s plans for its upcoming convention on June 23-25, •Thoughts and concerns about the FDA’s proposed rules for over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids,•The possibility of Medicare coverage for hearing aids and related services in the near future, •How diversity, equity, and inclusion in hearing healthcare might be improved and expanded, and •Information about the early-2022 website launch from the Industry-Consumer Alliance for Accessible Technology (ICAAT)—a collaboration between HLAA, Gallaudet University and the American Institutes for Research—that brings together technology developers with consumers who have hearing loss to create and inspire more accessible, innovative and responsive technologies.

In this 35-minute podcast, well-known hearing industry audiologist Thomas Powers, PhD, and Hearing Review Editor Karl Strom talk about four noteworthy parts of the proposed OTC hearing aid regulations: 1) Output limits for these new devices;2) The return-for-credit policies, and if consumers will have some kind of recourse if the hearing device doesn’t work for them;3) The somewhat wonky area of 510k premarket clearance relative to “wear and go” vs “self-fitting” OTC devices, and why it could be important; and4) One of the most confusing and potentially consequential parts of the FDA’s proposed regulations: the pre-emption of state laws and what this might actually mean for hearing care professionals, their practices, and state licensing boards. Dr Powers also speaks to labeling issues and provides his advice about how hearing care practices and their staff members might prepare for the advent of OTC hearing aids.For more great coverage, subscribe to our newsletters below:https://info.medqor.com/hrsubform